Re: [Boost-users] Boost Unit Testing Macros on Visual Studio 2005/Visual C++ 8.0

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost Unit Testing Macros on Visual Studio 2005/Visual C++ 8.0
From: Andrew J. Leer (leeand00_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-09 17:40:06

Okay figured it out, went to this post:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/212492/how-do-you-add-external-libraries-for-compilation-in-vc

And added the library.

Thank you,
   Andrew

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Andrew J. Leer <leeand00_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I received another reply on this, but it still doesn't completely fix the error
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1876444/boost-unit-testing-and-visual-studio-2005-visual-c-and-the-boostautotestsuit
>
> I didn't know this but you have to have #include "stdafx.h" as the
> first line in the file.
>
> Now I'm getting another error however...
>
> 1>Linking...
> 1>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
> 'libboost_unit_test_framework-vc80-mt-gd-1_40.lib'
>
> I really don't understand the error however because I have the
> aforementioned file in my C:\Program Files (x86)\boost\boost_1_40\lib
> directory (unless this warrants including it in the build somehow
> (...I have a java background...I'm a bit new to professional C++ that
> uses libraries...)
>
> Thanks,
>   Andrew
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Steven Watanabe <watanabesj_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> AMDG
>>
>> Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
>>>
>>> Andrew Leer <leeand00 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>    BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE (stringtest) // name of the test suite is
>>>> stringtest
>>>>
>>>
>>> There should not be space between macro name and (.
>>>
>>
>> Whitespace doesn't matter.  It's only required that the preprocessing
>> token after the macro name be a (.
>>
>> In Christ
>> Steven Watanabe
>>
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